Blake Coffee has a post online that made me laugh and think. He mentions the television show "What Not to Wear." I've seen this show with my daughters, and it's kind of funny...
Among the Pharisees in the time of Jesus, there was a debate over the legitimate grounds for divorce. Some scholars argued that a man could divorce his wife for any reason. Others claimed that...
I hate it when God says no. And that day, He said "No" with an exclamation point. The winter sun shone through the clouds like a dirty tennis ball and glinted off the...
I've often wondered if forgiveness should be the crucial mark of the church. Yes, Jesus said people will know us by our love. But in a sense, forgiveness is a particular expression of...
There are many challenges to doing church in the 21st century. One of the hardest is learning to recognize the influence of...
This might just be the most frequently disobeyed command of Jesus. Let me explain this rather audacious claim. Christians sin against each...
Transcript In his book, More Than Meets The Eye, Dr. Richard A. Swenson observes: "Light consists of tiny packages of energy, called photons. If we could study one as it leaves the sun...
High Calling blogger J. Schaap writes about his love of digital photography, how it has changed him and how it has opened his eyes to the beauty of the world----------------------- ...
The parable of the lost sheep is most familiar to us in the form it takes in Luke 15:3-7. There the emphasis is upon the lost sheep who is found by the shepherd...
Some people can find the dark cloud in every silver lining. These individuals are all too ready to pounce on the latest idea or the smallest breakthrough—so they can tear it down. Let...
Every other weekend, I get paid to do one of my favorite things: sing. Along with my husband and several others, I’m a cast member at the Rockbox, a live music theater.The only...
The prayers were agonizing—so intense that red sweat stained his white robe on this blackest of nights.The sorrow was excruciating—deep, painful, and overwhelming. Jesus said he felt like dying. A...
About a year ago, I got enmeshed in the controversy over the alleged "Jesus Family Tomb." This occupied the world's attention for about five minutes back in February 2008, when the Discovery...
If you were reading this passage in the Greek original of Matthew, you'd notice the frequent occurrence of words beginning with skandal-. The verb skandalizein and the noun skandalon appear three...
When the disciples came to Jesus to ask who was the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, they were expressing the values of their culture. Being honored by others was more important even...
High Calling Blogger "Wide Eyed Fiction" writes about healing. Healing is hard to understand, in part because we usually only think of physical healing. And of course, we've all watched the TV...
In the time of Jesus, Jewish men throughout the world showed their allegiance to the temple in Jerusalem and helped to support its work by paying a temple tax of about two days'...
The story of Jesus' transfiguration is one of the most spectacular in the Gospel of Matthew. For brief moments, Jesus was seen in his divine glory. Then, to emphasize the wonder of this revelation...
Following Jesus isn't a matter of adding something on to your otherwise unchanged life. When you enter the kingdom of God, you acknowledge God's reign over your life and seek to honor him...
In one of the crucial scenes in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus asked his disciples who they thought he was. Did they think he was one of the prophets, perhaps even Jeremiah or...
